Last week several places in Wisconsin and around the country broke records for warm temperatures several days in a row. Many places also recorded their single warmest winter day ever. This caused a lot of us who are not winter cyclists to pump up the tires, oil the chain and get out there. And that [...]

Two public meetings this week produced surprisingly strong support for self-driving vehicles in Wisconsin. On Tuesday evening Madison’s Capital Times newspaper hosted a forum on self-driving cars. About seventy-five people showed up. When the moderator asked for applause for various points of view the loudest clapping came for the pro-driverless position. Opponents generated only a [...]

It was just starting to drizzle, and even on its tiptoes, the mercury couldn’t quite reach 40°F as Amelia Kegel and I climbed on the back of the Wheel & Sprocket truck to give instructions before the first official Spring Classic Ride on 2016. Damp and cold, I shivered a bit as I surveyed the [...]

When Otto Wenz passed last year, we published a memorial story on our blog and in our magazine detailing all he had done for cycling, but it just didn’t feel like we did enough. It felt like we should have a more permanent way of recognizing Otto for everything he did to make Wisconsin bike [...]

Here’s an axiom for our times: If it appears in a Super Bowl commercial it has entered the popular culture. During last week’s Super Bowl 51, Ford aired a spot in which it touted itself as a mobility company providing not just cars, but other transportation products, including bike sharing and self-driving cars. A short [...]